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Sunland-Tujunga, California

Luxury Remodeling in Sunland-Tujunga

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Stone Bungalows on Hillside Ground

Sunland-Tujunga fills the northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley between the San Gabriel and Verdugo mountains, and its early character was set by Bolton Hall, the community center the Little Landers colony raised in 1913 from stone gathered in the Tujunga Wash.

The same abundant fieldstone produced a number of Tujunga houses in the late 1910s and 1920s, from stone bungalows built on load-bearing stone walls instead of wood framing to a cubic, parapeted style unique to the town. Beyond the flat center the ground rises into the foothills, and much of that foothill land falls under the San Gabriel/Verdugo Mountains Scenic Preservation Specific Plan, with its own rules on oaks, ridgelines and planting.

A backyard here starts with three checks: the slope, the fire map and whether the lot sits inside that plan.

Mostly low-density single-family. Postwar tracts on the gently sloping ground at the foot of the San Gabriels hold modest parcels, about 0.15 acre on Amanita Avenue and about 0.20 acre around Marnice Avenue, while the hillside Haines Canyon tract has irregular lots of roughly 0.4 to 0.85 acre set into the slope.

Inside the Specific Plan, 20,000 square feet, about 0.46 acre, is where the oak rule begins and the single-family exemption ends, so lot size shapes a project as much as grade does.

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Local Conditions

The Ground Rules in Sunland-Tujunga

Permits in Sunland-Tujunga

Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS)

Private pools in the City of Los Angeles are permitted through a Combined Building-Mechanical permit, while pools serving more than two dwelling units need separate building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits. Using a City of Los Angeles standard plan on file with LADBS reduces plan check time.

Nearly all of Sunland-Tujunga, its flat center included, lies inside the City's mapped Hillside Grading Area, so a pool here also needs its own LADBS grading permit. Much of the foothill ground on both sides of the valley falls inside the San Gabriel/Verdugo Mountains Scenic Preservation Specific Plan (Ordinance No. 175,736), where LADBS may not issue a building or grading permit for a Project, a term that includes any grading that needs a grading permit, until City Planning grants Project Permit Compliance.

A single-family home on an existing site under 20,000 square feet, outside a Prominent Ridgeline Protection Area and any Equinekeeping District, falls outside the plan's definition of a Project, so it skips that review but must still meet the plan's ridgeline-silhouette rule where it applies and its prohibited-plant list.

On plan-area lots of 20,000 square feet or more, a coast live oak or valley oak of eight inches or more, measured 4.5 feet above the ground, cannot be removed, cut down or moved without prior written approval from City Planning, and palms, Italian cypress, blue gum eucalyptus, California and Brazilian pepper trees, fountain grass and pampas grass are among the plants prohibited in new Projects.

Permit details checked September 2026 against LADBS and LA City Planning . Rules change, so we confirm them again for your parcel.

What We Plan For

Specific Plan Project Permit Compliance review

Oak protection and plan-compliant planting palettes

Hillside grading permits and retaining walls

Additions to load-bearing stone houses

Fire-zone materials and wind-engineered shade structures

The generally flat center gives way to San Gabriel and Verdugo foothill slopes, where homes such as those on Haines Canyon Avenue sit into the hillside above masonry retaining walls and stone or brick stairs, so structure and drainage lead the build.

Long stretches of Oro Vista Avenue in Sunland and the hillside blocks of Haines Canyon and Hillhaven avenues in Tujunga are mapped Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone on the City's fire hazard map, which shapes material and planting choices around a pool or outdoor room.

All of Sunland-Tujunga lies in the City's mapped High Wind Area, and in March 1956 winds of 85 to 100 miles per hour drove a wildfire that engulfed seven homes in the then-new Manzanita Slopes tract on Haines Canyon Avenue, so pergolas and shade structures deserve real wind engineering.

Some of Tujunga's late-1910s and 1920s stone houses were built with load-bearing stone walls rather than wood framing, so an addition or a new opening in one of them is a structural question before it is a design one.